Trump’s packed rallies and Clinton’s empty chairs - After relentlessly stabbing away at Donald Trump with character assaults and ridicule, the New York Times believed it had finally found his Achilles’ heel. It came the old-fashioned way. It showed up in a snail-mail envelope from an anonymous source that claimed to be Trump’s income-tax documents from 1995, showing he’s quite likely LEGALLY paid no income taxes for 18 years after writing off a near-billion-dollar business loss. The result? Trump made a clear and logical explanation that the tax code has laws; businessmen obeying the laws can live to fight another day. I was working for my business, employees and family 'now I'll be working for the American people!'

Luke-warm heat, but no boiling oil. Clinton herself, as it turns out, used the same loophole in 2015 to avoid almost $700,000 in taxes. Not a billion, obviously, but still ...